Allison Stacey Cowles | Wife to publishers, 75
Allison Stacey Cowles, 75, a member of a Spokane, Wash., family with large media holdings and the wife of retired New York Times patriarch Arthur "Punch" Sulzberger, has died.
Allison Stacey Cowles, 75, a member of a Spokane, Wash., family with large media holdings and the wife of retired New York Times patriarch Arthur "Punch" Sulzberger, has died.
The Spokesman-Review of Spokane said Ms. Cowles died late Saturday from pancreatic cancer.
She married Sulzberger in 1996, four years after her first husband, William H. Cowles III, died of a heart attack. Sulzberger was chairman and chief executive officer of the New York Times Co.
The couple moved to Spokane several weeks ago after Ms. Cowles was diagnosed with cancer.
She was born in Elizabeth, N.J. She graduated from Wellesley College and received a master's degree in history from Radcliffe College.
She married Cowles, whose family owned the Spokesman-Review newspaper and had many other business interests in the Spokane region. William Cowles was president and publisher of the Spokesman-Review when he died in April 1992 at the age of 60.
Ms. Cowles served as a national board member of the Smithsonian Institution and on corporate boards. - AP